{{Infobox noble, type , name = Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Zúñiga , title = 4th

Count of Cabra Count of Cabra is a Spanish noble title created by King Henry IV of Castile on 2 November 1455 for Diego Fernandez de Cordova and Montemayor, 1st Viscount of Iznájar. The titleholder is a Grandee of Spain, the third oldest such title in Spain. T ...

, Viscount of Iznájar, Lord of Baena,

Duke of Sessa Duke of Sessa is a Spanish noble title awarded to Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba by Ferdinand II in 1507. It was the fifth ducal title bestowed on Gonzalo, after the ducal titles of Santángelo (1497), Terranova (1502), Andría (1507) and M ...

, Duke of Terranova, Duke of Santángelo , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , predecessor = , successor = Gonzalo II Fernández de Córdoba , suc-type = , spouse =

Elvira Fernández de Córdoba y Manrique Elvira is a female given name. First recorded in medieval Spain, it is likely of Germanic name, Germanic (Gothic name, Gothic) origin. Elvira may refer to: People Nobility * Elvira Menéndez (died 921), daughter of Hermenegildo Gutiérrez and ...

, spouse-type = Wife , issue = , issue-link = , issue-pipe = , styles = , titles = , noble family = , house-type = , father = Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza , mother = Francisca de Zúñiga y de la Cerda , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = , death_date = 17 August 1526 , death_place = Rome , occupation = Luis Fernández de Córdoba (born c. 1480, died 17 August 1526) was a Spanish nobleman,

count of Cabra Count of Cabra is a Spanish noble title created by King Henry IV of Castile on 2 November 1455 for Diego Fernandez de Cordova and Montemayor, 1st Viscount of Iznájar. The titleholder is a Grandee of Spain, the third oldest such title in Spain. T ...

and

viscount A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...

Iznájar Iznájar is a town and municipal area in the province of Córdoba in Andalucia, southern Spain. Located at , it lies on the Genil river approximately 110 km from the provincial capital of Córdoba very close to the borders with both Málag ...

, lord of the house of

Baena Baena is a town and municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain located in the Córdoba Province, Spain, province of Córdoba, Andalusia. It is situated near the on the slope of a hill southeast of Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba by road. The popu ...

, of Terranova and of Santángelo by his marriage to his cousin,

(all of these duchies were created, between 1497 and 1507, for Elvira's father, the "Great Captain"

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1 September 1453 – 2 December 1515) was a Spanish general and statesman who led successful military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. His military victories and widespread po ...

). Luis was the son of Diego Fernández de Córdoba y Mendoza (d. 11 August 1525), third count of Cabra and Francisca de Zúñiga y de la Cerda. A courtier and ambassador of

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, french: Charles Quint, it, Carlo V, nl, Karel V, ca, Carles V, la, Carolus V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (Crown of Castile, Castil ...

, he went to

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in the company of his brothers Pedro and Francisco, and in 1518 accompanied Charles V on his trip to Spain for his coronation. He was in Italy in mid-1521, in the Sixth Italian War, as one of the candidates for the general captaincy of the Spanish army (the position was given to

Fernando d'Ávalos Fernando Francesco d'Ávalos, 5th Marquess of Pescara (or Ferrante Francesco d'Ávalos); Spanish: Francisco Fernando de Ávalos, (11 November 1489 – 3 December 1525), was an Italian condottiero of Aragonese (Spanish) origin. He was an importa ...

in 1522). On 17 September 1522, he was appointed imperial ambassador to Pope Adrian VI, replacing Juan Manuel, lord of Belmonte, and continued in this position under

Pope Clement VII Pope Clement VII ( la, Clemens VII; it, Clemente VII; born Giulio de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed "the ...

from November 1523 to May 1526. He also held the position of Spanish vice-regent in Italy, nominally placed above the

Viceroy of Naples This is a list of viceroys of the Kingdom of Naples. Following the conquest of Naples by Louis XII of France in 1501, Naples was subject to the rule of the foreign rulers, the Kings of France, Aragon and Spain and the Habsburg Archdukes of Austria ...

as well as all other ambassadors and military commanders stationed in Italy. In 1526, at the start of the Seventh Italian War (the War of the League of Cognac), where the emperor and the pope found themselves on opposing sides, he marched to the Kingdom of Naples together with Hugo of Moncada to gather troops against Rome (ultimately resulting in the Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527). He fell ill in San Marino, and asked Clement VII for permission to enter the city of Rome to be treated. He was admitted to the city and died there on 17 August. His marriage to Elvira (18 March 1518) resulted in four children. The firstborn, Gonzalo II Fernández de Córdoba (1520–1578), inherited his titles. Gonzalo was followed by three sisters, María, Beatriz and Francisca. Luis survived his father only by one year, and thus held his comital titles only from August 1525 until his own death in August 1526. His ducal titles were held by marriage, from 1518. The ducal title were inherited by his daughter Francisca after Gonzalo died without issue in 1578, and after Francisca's death by the son of Beatriz,

Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona, 5th Duke of Sessa (2 December 1550 – 6 January 1606), was a Spanish nobleman. He held the titles of Duke of Sessa, Duke of Soma, and Duke of Baena, among others. Lineage Antonio Fernández de Córdoba ...

References

* Juan Bautista Muñoz, ''Catálogo de la colección de Don Juan Bautista Muñoz'', vol. 3,

Real Academia de la Historia The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ...

, 1954. * Ferdinand Gregorovius, ''History of the city of Rome in the middle ages'', vol. 8, part 2, London, 1902. People of the Italian Wars Dukes of Spain Counts of Spain 1480s births 1526 deaths